Letter from John Pierce to Robert Fenner, including related receipt from Fenner

Pierce, John

June 15,
1786

Volume 18, Pages 653-654

JOHN PIERCE TO MAJ. ROBERT FENNER.

[From Executive Letter Book.]

Pay Office, New York, June 15th, 1786.

Sir:

By Col. Blount I send you Orders drawn by the Treasurer on the Receiver of the Continental Taxes for your State in favor of the officers of the line, agreeably to the list enclosed to you in my Letter of the 10th Inst. amounting to 13,367 34-90 dollars the receipts for which on your payment I wish you to transmit to me at this office.

JOHN PIERCE.

To Maj. Robt. Fenner.

COPY OF MY RECEIPT.

Received from William Blount, Esquire, one hundred and two Orders on the Commissioner of the Loan office for the State of North Carolina drawn by the Board of Treasury of the United States amounting to the sum of thirteen thousand three hundred and sixty Seven 34-90 dollars for which Sum I promise to be accountable to the pay master General of the Army of the United States or

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his Successor in Office for the faithful delivery of the same to the Officers of the late North Carolina Line in whose favor the same are drawn or to their legal representatives.